Poll: How do you feel about accidental deaths in the Sims 2?
DavidC:
I have only ever had one accidental death in my game. The servo started making a Baked Alaska which he was addicted to doing, I canceled the action and told him to do something useful, then instead of just throwing it away I had one of my Sims finish it off and he set himself on fire with it ::) The same thing happened again a couple of sims days later except it was the servo that did it with max cooking skill. I'm starting the think this game has lucky and unlucky game sessions the way things happen sometimes.
After I originally read this thread and voted for more deaths I had a visitor (playable sim) at my lot catch fire in the hot tub, lucky I was busy with another sim in the garden or I wouldn't have noticed and he would be dead. Guess I got what I asked for.
Tamha:
I voted for increased deaths, but really I'd like what a lot of people seem to prefer, not so much more stupid or bizarre death (although I admit I do have 2J's satellite drop increase hack), but illness should be deadly on occasion (I never treat sims different when they are sick, and they never die on me). Of course, I micro-manage my sims, so whenever they try to do something stupid, I can usually tell them to do something else. I really ought to let more of them electrocute themselves, I guess, but the first time I figured out that was possible I killed Nina (who I had my self-sim wooing, and she's one of my favorite sims), so I ended up not saving it. And now that I have Monique's save game reminder, preventing an accidental death (usually from me neglecting one sim for another) that I don't want is even easier. It also be nice if sims who froze could die from cold rather than having to die from starvation eventually. They could be treated like drowned ghosts for all I care, they leave puddles everywhere because they're "thawing out".
Pyromaniac:
I've had a pure, 100% accidental death when I installed Seasons. My sim was raking leaves during Fall, and when I chose to burn the leaves, the Sim decided to walk over the leaves. :-X A rather stupid decision, really, since he immediately caught on fire and nobody was around to extinguish him. The guy owned four business, too, and they were all inherited by his sister.
angelyne:
I don't think I would like more need-depletion deaths, because I spend enough time micro-managing my sims without having to worry that they will kill themselves if I don't pay attention to them for a few seconds.
However, I remember that my only death in game was from the mysterious choking death. I exited the game and reloaded it but she got up and started choking again. I had to replay this quite a few times before her family successfully rescued her from ole Grimmy.
I have to admit that it certainly was a pretty exciting episode.
So a slightly increased chance of random death from various causes might be fun (so long as it's not starvartion, or something you need to micro-manage). You always have the option to reload the game if you can't save your sim (and he's a favorite).
But what that I think would make the game more realistic and fun is to make disease more meaningful. As it is now, your sims get "sick", they cough a bit and then get better. I'd love it if there was a chance that they would get worse and worse and potentially die. The game always says "Make sure your sim gets lot of rest". Well it would be nice if that meant something.
You could have the whole family stricken with disease. It would make creating a hospital in game mean something. You could still save your sims by using a cure, or by pleading with Grimmy.
I know we discussed this in the past, and maybe that's where the decimate option came from, but it Could be so much fun if that could be done through disease.
Could a more virulent form of disease be modded?
Tigerlilley:
Quote from: Pyromaniac on 2007 March 29, 21:58:36
I've had a pure, 100% accidental death when I installed Seasons. My sim was raking leaves during Fall, and when I chose to burn the leaves, the Sim decided to walk over the leaves. :-X A rather stupid decision, really, since he immediately caught on fire and nobody was around to extinguish him. The guy owned four business, too, and they were all inherited by his sister.
How did you do that? I had my sim standing between 2 piles of burning leaves and nothing happened. I thought maybe they were safe from leave piles burning. Might not be so lax next time!
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